Values of American Teachers

How Teachers’ Values Help Stabilize Unsteady Democracy

AvRobert Slater

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Education today is increasingly focused on tests and testing. Teachers are being judged on how much they can increase test scores from one year to the next. These year-to-year gains in scores are part of a "value-added" approach to teacher evaluation, and value-added teacher assessment is all the rage now. A main point of this book is that while teachers do add value when they enable students to increase their performance on standardized tests, this is neither the only nor the most important value they add. An analysis of 40 years of data on teachers suggests that an equally if not more important value added is their contribution to the stability of our increasingly unsteady democracy. Teachers help steady modern democracy by teaching children the limits of liberty and by cultivating the social virtues--trust, cooperation, helpfulness, and the like--upon which civil society depends. We need not only to recognize this but also to avoid education policies that undermine their willingness and ability to do so.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-29
Mått:158 x 239 x 15 mm
Vikt:327 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:138
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781475800067
Utmärkelser:Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Titles 2014

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Pedagogisk teori och filosofi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

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Robert Slater holds a Master's degree from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Chicago. A Senior Fulbright Scholar to Peru in 1996, and again to Bolivia 2010, his teaching, research and writing focuses on education and the vicissitudes of democracy. He is Professor of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he directs the doctoral program in educational leadership and coordinates research development for the Cecil J. Picard Center.

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This excellent book balances larger philosophical issues with empirical data, resulting in a thought-provoking book for teachers, students, and researchers. Historically, teachers have been held to high standards of professional and personal conduct. These high standards are premised on the assumption that teachers are role models for their students and communities. Serving as a role model, moreover, assumes that the teacher deliberately shares values with children as opposed to modeling behaviors and ideas in a less direct fashion. Slater has written a book on these topics that achieves three things. First, it provides a rich context from which to consider teachers and teaching (chapter 1) and values and valuing (chapter 2). Second, it provides empirical data regarding what teachers believe about topics such as family values, religion, various social issues, freedom, equality, and science (chapters 3 through 8). Finally, Slater uses this data to contemplate how the position of the teacher and the expression of values within schools are essential to stabilize the contradictory ideas within a democracy (e.g., freedom while living and learning in a community). Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, undergraduate students, graduate students, and research faculty.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction PART I Teachers, Teaching and ValuesChapter 1 Teachers and TeachingChapter 2 Values and ValuingPART II Teachers’ Values Chapter 3 Family and Children's ValuesChapter 4 ReligionChapter 5 Social Values: Trust, Helpfulness and FairnessChapter 6 FreedomChapter 7 EqualityChapter 8 SciencePART III Teachers' Values and DemocracyChapter 9 Teachers' Values In Unsteady Democracy